I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

With Jesus I Pitch My Tent--Jan. 21, 2022

[From Jan. 24, 2020 archive]

 

Lord Jesus, with you I pitch my tent;

I invoke your name

and the power of your indestructible life.

 

Teach me to worship in spirit and in truth.

Lord, counsel me, 

instruct me, and teach me the way I should go.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 130; 148; 32; 139

Gen. 11:27-12:8

Heb. 7:1-17

John 4:16-26

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 130:8

I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go;
          I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

 

Gen. 12:8

From there [Abram] moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD.

 

Heb. 7:15-16

It is even more obvious when another priest [our Lord] arises, resembling Melchizedek, one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life.

 

John 4:24

“…God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”  [Jesus, to the Samaritan woman]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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